She appears incapable of writing anything without dragging her apparently self-created Mandalorian culture and characters into it. She wrote a theoretically collaborative nonilogy with two other more experienced Star Wars writers about events taking place when the children of the OT characters are in their thirties, but every third book in the series featured her jarring the plot and character arcs out of their storylines and into a sequel to the Republic Commando video game adaptation series she wrote, with books and books on why Boba Fett is just the baddest-ass in the whole Star Wars universe, and never mind that he did absolutely nothing besides follow the Millenium Falcon somewhere and let Darth Vader make all the arrangements to actually capture his prey. From there, like his father before him, he died like a little bitch, with Princess Leia showing way more badassery in that scene ALONE, despite the most infamously exploitative costume in the history of the genre.

But Karen Traviss has taken the "Mandos" to heart, and therefore Princess Leia's daughter is on the defensive when Boba Fett rails against the injustice his family has suffered at the hands of the Jedi, with a whine about how his daddy must have suffered while his decapitated head retained consciousness for a few minutes after the evil Jedi cut it off for no better reason than Daddy Fett's collaboration with an irredeemably evil space wizard and selling his biological siblings/offspring into slavery as cannon fodder and attempting to murder the Jedi who killed him.

The other two authors of that series were Aaron Allston, who is arguably a technically inferior writer to Traviss, and Troy Denning, who is in some ways an even more egregious fan-fiction writer (his ham-fisted insertion of plot devices and long-lost recordings that allow OT characters to learn the family history as revealed in the prequels), but neither qualifies as the worst author in the series, thanks to Traviss's absurd positions and sympathies and ridiculous PoV justifications (I rail about readers who succumb to the PoV Trap, but she might be the first case of an actual writer falling prey to it), many of which smack of typical internet poster attempts to prove she is SOOOO superior to George Lucas, creatively speaking, by attempting to point out plot holes in the movies, or twist the perspective of the story around. There are any number of little comments made by her "wise" and moral touchstone characters that are thinly veiled digs at the films' story and characters' choices.

Also, her heavy use of British military slang is distracting in a book about an American property, primarily written by American authors.